Using a combo of Ruby on Rails, Devise, Action Mailer and Sidekiq To send a welcome email after a user signs up, you’ll want to override Devise’s RegistrationsController. Here’s how you can do that: In this file, add the following code: The super keyword calls the original create method from Devise::RegistrationsController, and the block (do … Read more
What does the Pundit gem do? The Pundit gem is a Ruby library that is used for authorization in Ruby on Rails applications. It provides a set of tools for defining permissions and access control in your application. Here’s how it works: In essence, Pundit provides a flexible and straightforward way to add complex authorization … Read more
The Ahoy gem provides a solid foundation to track visits and events in Ruby, JavaScript, and native apps. Here’s how to add it to a Rails 7 application: This will generate an initializer file at config/initializers/ahoy.rb and a migration file in db/migrate/ which creates two tables, ahoy_visits and ahoy_events. Then you can use the ahoy.track … Read more
This is a WordPress plugin I created a while back to white label, replace and/or remove the WordPress branding from the CMS to give you the user a more professional look if they are doing custom builds with WordPress. The plugin allows you to change the howdy text within the dashboard, hide multiple WordPress logos … Read more
Ruby on Rails tutorial Here is a Ruby on Rails example of adding a join table so that you can create a has_many Users through situation with Projects. This assumes that you already have a Project and a User model. 1. Generate your scaffold: Generating a scaffold here called UserProjects. It has two reference fields … Read more
Ruby on Rails add index to join table, generate migration 1. make uniqueness index on areas_deals:*This stops the association from being able to be duplicated, but throws an error causing bad UI, we will address that below** 2. Check the schema and make sure you got what you want. We wanted this added: t.index [“area_id”, … Read more
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(regex == regular expressions) There are a few Regex tricks that I use constantly in my javascript stuff to control numbers or variable names. Here are a few examples of Regex in action. Remove non-numeric characters except periods: This will take a string or number and change it to an integer or a float that … Read more